Ambitious plans to build the world’s biggest wind turbines at a
state-of-the-art factory in Kent have been ditched.

Vestas announced a proposal to build the plant at the Port of Sheerness on the
Thames Estuary 13 months ago, in a move that would have created 2,000 jobs.
The Danish company said yesterday that it would no longer proceed. It did
not explain its withdrawal.

However, the decision comes against the backdrop of stalling investment in the
British wind industry. There are few concrete commitments to begin work on
so-called Round 3 projects, erecting turbines as tall as the Gherkin office